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IN THIS ISSUE: SONGS BY Malvina Rey~lds Phil Oehs Bertolt Brecht &: Robin Maisel Ethe 1 Rosenberc & Vietor Fink Patrick Sky Paul Wolfe ~t. O.. n...tiA t Randall Wilbur ~A4 Benjamin Griffith F.-W".,." 1HRJ:£ POEMS - "fwD WIIH MUSIC, ONE.. WI1l/0UT

Words: Bertolt Brecht ALL OF US OR NONE Husic: Robin Maisel

Beaten man, who shall avenge you? Who, 0 wretched one, shall dare it? You, on whom the blows are falling, He who can no longer bear it Hear your wounded brothers calling. Counts the blows that arm his spirit, Weakness gives us strength to lend you. Taught the time by need and sorrow, Comrade, come, we shall avenge you. Strikes today and not tomorrow. .. yc From "All Of Us Or None" in SELECTED POEM:3 OF BERTOLT BRECHT, translated by H.R.Hays, copyright 1947 by Bartolt Breoht and H.R. Hays, and reprinted here by permission of Harcourt, Brace & World,Inc. This poem is from Brecht's play DAYS OF THE COMHUNE. The German Vel'S ion with music by Hans Eisler is sung by Eric Bentley on his "Bentley On Brecht" disc (Riverside).

TO MY COUNTRYMEN

You who live on in town~ th~t p~~~~d ~w~y You ehildr~n th~t you ~ll rn~Y stay al~V§ Now show yourm~lv~~ ~om~ m~rey r im~lor@ Your fath@r~ ~nd your moth@r§ you mu§t Wak~ft Do not go marehin~ into ~om@ n~w war And if in ruin~ you would not §urviv@ As if the old war~ had not had th@ir d~y T@ll th@m you will not tak@ what th@y hav@ taK@ But show your~@lv@~ ~om@ m@rey r im~lor@. You ehildr@n that you all may §tay aliv@.

You men r~aeh for th@ trow@l not th@ knif@ You moth@r~ from Whom all m@ft tak@ th@ir ~~@eth Today you'd hav~ a roof abov~ your h@ad A w~r i~ your~ to ~iv@ or not to ~iv~ But that you gambled on th~ knif@ in~t~ad I b~~ you moth@r~ l@t your ehildr@n liv@ And with a roof one ha9 a bett@r life L~t th~m ow~ you th@ir birth but not th@ir d@~~ You men reach for the trowel not the knif~. I b@~ you moth~r~ l~t your ehildr@fl liv~. (ED.NOTE: This is a Erecht lyric, in Eric E~ntl~yl~ En~11~h wordm, which P~te Seeger was interested in tryin,g to wr1 h a tUM tor jl.Hrt 'b~:t'on h~ hf't on hh world tour. We h~venlt y~t h~ard what P~h c~ml] U!l with, bu1~ w~ld l1k~ to hear what other tunesten mlght mfik~ of' :it) Hf..';.'IILJS'UJL o 1137 -----..._---_.__ ._._------

The little boy stands on the curbstone Where the black horse goes his vmy., There is no one in the-saddle Where a man rode yesterday. There's so much sorrO"\\l' in the air So many tears to dry, It's time for love to take a hand And love is pa.ssing by, Daddy, goodbye. The little boy stands on the sidewalk \ifh€re the kings and princes go, And they wa.lk like men in mourning And their step is sad and slow. There's so much grieving in the world 'fhe children asking why, It's time for love to take a hand And love is passing by, Daddy, goodbye. BROADSIDE #3'7 NO CHRISTHAH Hr KENTUCKY By Phil Oohs e 1963 Applesced :Music

Elec t:rte: toys a.nd p t men are workLn t oh so fine But there's no work for mitle:r::.~ when machines move:1 the mines In the hills of tucky the~ets one gift that ma~ be found It's the coal dust of forgot-ten days that· s lyint on th ground .. (eno) Letts drink a toast Congress and a toast to Santa glans There's no Santa in chimney when there are no mii~ n' laws And back in old Kentucky they're all goinf tor a :rid On a Christmas sled that's fallin' down a jobless m<) ntainside. . CCho) Have a merry merry Christmas and a happy nav year's (lay For now's a time of plenty and plenty's here to stay But if you kne\!J" what Christmas was I think that you would rind That Chris t is spending Christrnas in the cold Kentucky mines '" (Cho) BROADSIDE #37 THE TIMES I'VE HAD By Mark Spoelstra @ 1962

Tr:t.n1t1 Musio, Inc it 3. I was in Ohio tn a little t:rw:~k stop '\\Jl1en 1:1 soldier told me th,J.s peace has got; to stop He SF,\id think about the economy r ain't afraid to fight tor my country .. 4. Itt s folks that 'Want to fight that Iim talkin'ab-0ut They're leading the blind in a time less drought But I don t t want no dro'l1.ght on my land 'Wnen there are Peace and LO'le .in my right hand.,

ERpflDSIDC #31 Hords & I1usic by Patrick Sky ALONE / lC' 1963 by authOJ; us If Woodnere Ilus ic Company Used by permission (Omit 3rd on all G & G7 chords) ~ G G7 _C G, G7 _ c ~ D. '. 04ft-J~JH,LFli~-JFQlrJ ¥~~jl~J ~ -f You say that I'm a bloody savage un-fit to live in this fair land

'.* Cl§_"~_G __ ~ •._ _:-- __ ~. __ ._G I· -----:-~-tt.~=..... _- --..:::;r ~.-J~=-~:~:3=t=±]t--- - _.- --...... _...... - IT , -v.· -;r" , ".(::It)..,-.,. ..:....t- But you stole it fro~ our fathers with a bible in your hand. (/.'''·'';~:~~\M "'{~J) .. ~ '., .:::~.~~:'\::~~'~~~'':=::?--::':fI::-~;;'':':;.~:'-::':'~'=-~~_ ~ . 'I. .~~, ~illi ~.. O/ ,!?~, ~ ~....-r/' ..".;.~ .. ~y-' __ ..:'" t~"1'-; ,.; t~ ~.l(, l-:'V~\'-' ~-~':--...,;_.~~~_ .... ""..... "' .... : _ 'E- ':.__ ~ ___ \~t ~ , ~-." -'-. . ..•• ~.-- .~. ,' •. - . ;J;j'H;·~i:;' .$."1: f ..... ,. i:'Y ~".\.";:::.. ~il~dI: ~ .-.....'r . ...,... ';' "'1:. ',\ ~ .. :;,.,', I : ~ " 1"'"' ~,..,. _ •. ~ ,!J .... , .,',. -.,. .. - - ,,"-< n . You s tit~:(,r::i' !l!OdY~~:~~P~;6r~f:'~i~~~~~:'£;:;! ,~k;~'i~S Unfit to live in this Fair Land Send him to some foreign land But you stole it from our Father Make him fight the wars we With a bible in your hand. started Then you pushed us further \;Jhile he t S away, we'll steal further, ' more land 1" Back into the hills & plains Nov! you can laugh, say I I m foolish Said, "This land is yours forever Unlearned ••• No right to speak Long as White Clouds bring the this way rains." But I'm speaking, f( r my people Now the treaties have been broken So listen \\Then these words I say: By the Politicians tongue, "\'IE don f t want your dirty cities "The way to get the Indian land Nor your planes & cars & such! Is for to educate his young." All we want is to live our way "Se 11 him liquor, give him money That ain It askin for too m'lch .. " Lie and steal, and break his pride "Keep your money, and your He is just a primitive savage diamonds! Remember, God is on our side c Ii Keep your silver,and your goldt "Make his faith & cults illegaU Keep your governmental powers Sell him bibles cheaply priced~ Where human lives are bought and Tell him how we love & praise sold~!! him "Keep your guns, keep your swords In the name of Jesus Christ ~ II Your bombs, aD.d other things C'Y war~ Keep your whole damned Social Order, ~ROI-IDSI.oE :/t37 And DON'T BOTHER US NO HORE!,1l * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * By Paul vIol.Ie TALKr:'TG CHRISTHAS c 1963 by autho:: Hell I passed a toy shop the other day, In the 1."inc:ow "'las a Christmas display, 111s3ile5, tanks, rockets, guns, The kids are really gonna have some fun, Have their own wars -- Kill each other }!Ierry Christmas ~ I went up close and I read the ad, Kids t, it said, \V'ar 1 s the current fad, Relive the great ones of history, Prepare yourself for l'Jorld ~'Jar Three" Get yourself a machine gun ... - only a dollar ninety-eight, Italian make. Special for Christmasl

I Sat,; a man walk into a store nearby, That had Christmas posters hung real high, Sorry we can't serve you, the clerks did say, But Herry Christmas, anywayl vIe I re just taking orders from above, vJe ain't got nothin' against you, really, Except your skin is black. I saw a man preaching on the street cornerts end Peace on Earth -- Good \lill Toward Men, But nobody listened, they just shoved him aside, He was just an old man~ ignorant and blind. They couldn't be blamed much, though -~ They had shopping to do, It's Christmas, you know.

VIell, I saw a bum lying by the side"Jalk's edge, He couldda been alive, he couldda been dead, But either vlaY, he 'Has plain outta luck. Not one person stopped to pick him up, They were all too busy -- Shouing good will to'ltlard men, I guess, After all, it's Christmas. A guy dovln South li1ent home that night, Kissed his children, hugged his wife, Itll see ya later, he says, you kids be good, I go tta go nm", where' s my hood? The boys and I are genna have a Christmas party Anybody seen my rifle? Herry Christmas! -- ya'a11. ************** BROADSIDE # 37 NEVIS ITEH: "Season's Greetings But Not A Herry Christmas" is the message on the holiday cards of Rep, Adam Clayton P011ell (D .. N"Y")$ The card also has the \'1orc~s "Let's Put Christ Back in Christmas" and a dra~/!ing of the bombed Birmingham Negro church and 6 ,,"hite crosses representing the six children 1,vho "'lere murdered. TvJO HARTYRS STREETS OF DALLAS Tm-/N 3y Benjamin Griffith c 1963 by author (Tune: uVearing Of The Green") {tOut of my deep grief follo,\1ing the late Presio.ent l s assassination, I vlrote this song, to a traditional Irish tune, n Benjamin Griffith .. Americans, and did you hearj The news that's going 'round? They! ve gone and shot John Kennedy, In the streets of' Dallas to\vn. CRO: The streets of Dallas town, ~y boys, The streets of Dallas town, Theylve gone and shot our President,In the streets of Dallas tot-Tn", He stoat. for human dignity, And rights the t\Torld a.round, And that is why they cut h:i.m down;On the streets of Dallas town(CHO) From ever~r\'lhere a chorus. of hate, Had made an awful sound, And that is ",hy they shot him down,. On the streets of Dallas town. • d I 1" Ad'; 1 (CRO .. ) Anc.. you an had ~stened, nO. had not rna e rep Yt And that is v1hy in Dallas town, A good man had to die.. (CRO.)

By Randall Wilbur MlSDGAR EVERS (Tune: IIJesse James lf ) c 1963 by author lledgar Evers was a man, he tried to stop the Klan, His leadership true and braVe, He said to the whites, let the Negro have his rights, But they laid Hedgar Evers in his grave. CHO~Hedgar w'as a man, he wanted to be free, .rust like you and me i . But a dirty segregat~onist, said this could not be, And he laid l!edgar Evers in his grave. Re vlent to a. meeting, there some 'vords to speak, Just like hetd done before, ~ rut as he \-valked up to his door, a rifle it did roar, And they silenced him forevermore. (CHO) j01,-l I ask you people, hm-v can this thing be? In this land of liberty, If you were born black, then they can shoot you in the back, I ":Tonder if you ever thought of that@ (CHO) This song vIas \>lritten in Glendale, California, A tm'm 'I:There Negroes can't live, So it Hedgar ",as to speak, like he did in Hlssissippi, They ''lould lay l1edgar Evers in his grave.. (CHO) They've killed us before, and they'll kill us again, But someday 'liTe shall \'lin, So tIe must keep up the fight, for I kno,,, that '!,\fe are right, Or they'll lay each of us in our grave e (CEO) "I first began vlriting topical songs last April~ I \-laS fortunate to hear the BROADSIDE Vol. I album on FH radio then, and soon after ... ,,,ards found rllyse If humming an old tune, but putting in new lYl'ics,l! Randall Vlilbur •. * * * * • * * * * * * .• * * * * BROADSIDE # 37" • GIL TURNER REPORTS ON THE "SEA ISLAND FOLK FESTIVAL" "Guy Carmvan got the idea that somebody shouldtve had a long. time ago. He figured that a folk festival should be held right where the folksingers live so it would be a part of their life and at the same time help get some community improvements ... So he arranged the re­ cent festival on the Sea Islands offshot'e from S "C. Lord knows that the places "rhere th~ Hfolk" live got a tougher row to hoe than towns like 'Ne':lport and L.A. These Carolina islands may be some of the rich­ est picture-takin I c01.mtry in the USA, spangled with forests of big oaks dripping Spanish moss allover; but the people are poor as hell .. Some of the ladies I met here can $ing like they invented folk mus­ ic but they have to work in laundries for fifteen bucks a week. HI don't think anybody has ever gone through a greater 48 ... hour con­ centration of real foll{ music than the Sea Island Festival turned out to be .. \lords tl1 describe music like this haven't really yet been invented.. Vlhen Bessie Jones and her Georgia Sea Island Singers take over a stage they come up with a flood of shouts, hollers, spirituals, 't\lorksongs, playparties, dances and whatnots that tell more about people and their folk music in 30 minutes than thirty lectures on the subject in any college~ It was almost too much to have them on the same concert together with that equally gifted grou;:), the Singers of Hoving Star Ha 11. nGuy Cara\van must have done the 'tvork of ten men in putting this festival together. Hets been travtling at that pace ever since he came to the South some years ago. He just keeps on soaking in all the music he learns from the people and teaching it to the next people he meets.. I see he t s just brought out a ne\v book of the songs of the Negro Freedom struggle (titled "itle Shall Overcome" and put out at $1.95 a copy by OAK PUBLICATIONS, 165 w.. 46 St._, New York 36,N.Y~L liThe only northerners that dropped in on the Sea Island Festival ""ere royse If, my wife Lori and Bob Cohen.. Alan Lomax and his daught­ er Ann \vere there, but Alan is really a displaced southerner. Late in the Saturday concert, Alan got up and preached a singinf sermon made up of s011gS that came from around here and got made popular by singers up North. Songs like HUichael Row The Boat Ashore H , "Mid­ night Special11 and "Horne On The Rangelt(Alan t s father collected the latter from a Negro \vorkecl' itl a Southern tavern) iii His preachlnt bet,V'een songs told about hOvl much good folk m11.sic there i:las -- and is -- among the Negro people in the South. This made everybody feel good. Then he said that it is a shame that these same people and their \\Tonderful music are so little appreciated in their own part of the country - ... ""hich made everybody fee 1 bad II! One sentence Alan said seemed so important I wrote it dOHn word for word; it went "There are probably more genuine folksingers in this ~knce than "rere present on the .§..tJtK.e. for many of the Neltlport Festival programs." Alan Lomax isn't ahmys the easiest guy to agree "lith 100%, but I was with him all the way this time~ "By the 1:fay, that audience vJaS mostly N€gro people, but it was good to Se; about sixty uhi te folks, mostly from Charleston, sprin1£led all tnrough the crowd -- anf they looked and acted like they felt they vlere right \'ihere they be longed & If such a thing was ever seen in a theater or concert hall around Charleston before, you can safely SEA ISLA:TDS FOLK FI~STIVAL -- 2 bet almost anything it vlasn't in this century. liOn Sunday vIe v!ent to St. Stephen's African l1ethodist Ch'J.rch and heard more good singing and preaching. The minister made a special vlelcome and brotherhood speech for us vlsitors II Later on, each one of us was asked to say something. Hiles Horton, the veteran of High­ lander, just about covered it for all 0-'£ us when he said, "I "!ant to tha 11k you for making me feel more t..relcome and comfortable here than I feel in any church run. by my own (-t;rhite) people." "Sunday night put the frosting on the cake vlith a praise house meet­ ing at i'Ioving Star Hall. It seemed to me that every single member of lfuving Star Hall was both a folksinger and folkpreacher of the best kind you can ever hope to hear. vlhen they all got together after the services and started swapping songs, tales, dances, etc., ''lith Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers it was almost too much to describe on paper. You'll just have to go down there next year (itt s to be an annual thing) and see and hear all these things for yourse If. fI ...... GIL TURNER ------~-~------~~------~------NOT E S CRIPPLING CENSORSHIP is to/hat Billboard calls action by some U.S .. rad­ io stations in banning the British song "In the Summer of His Years ", a tribute to the late President John F. Kennedy. A spokesman for WNEvT in Mel'l York called the record "A blatant attempt to commercial­ ize on a nat ional tragedy." But B:t..JJ.. poard in its editorial says: "Just as a poet may be moved by a great tragedy to pen some stanzas; just as a novelist might be moved to write a book, or a plaY'vright a play, so maya songvlriter a song. In this ,..ray -- through the impact of r event songs" anc ballads -- do momentous events enter the nat­ ions body of folklore 41 To ha.mper this process seems umlise and un­ fair .. !! ...... It BOB COHEN came across the follm'ling in an introduction to T~Jlt.kt.l} p.eJ!ot,!r..Y ChYle... s_~ Poej;,Ll! (Doubleday, 1963): II eo. the fo lk song ••• has actually been the mainstay in the development of Chinese poetry and has remained one of its strongest rejuvenating forces .. " The intro(~uction notes that zealous "guardians" of Chinese culture rev.JOrked the classics and gave them a moralistic interpretation '''hieh suhsequently became accepted as orthodoxy. As a consequence, in later centuries love songs in the 3,OOO-year-old Bo..olL,q..f_"poetr:.Y. ''lere accept­ ed as '-lords of great \visdom 'V/hile a current love song was dismissed as vulgar ""'lhen in reality it was no more so than anyone of the dozens of folk songs in Ib~o...2k Of,y_Q..8..try" .... IF vJE DIE: Ethel Rosenberg, and her husband Julius, were burned to death in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison just after sundown on June 19, 1953 .... TALKING CHRIST­ HAS: "Be a one-man junior arm.y ••• Blast a,,,a.y on your Tommy Gun .... bullet shooting 145' Cap Pistol and have your practice Hand Grenades ready. You're all set for a midnight drop behind enemy lines ••• You'll be a fearless PARATROOPER." Christmas ad in Sears-Roebuck sent in by Bill Freclericke I /! B~OAD~ IDE? Box 193 ~ Cathecfia-f-~'fta:, NYC ;-. NY lOO?5 .. A topica 1 song pub­ Illllcatlon, about tWlce a month .. ECltor, SlS Cunnlngham; ContI'. Editors i:: Gil Turner, Phil Oehs, , Josh Dunson; Advisory, . ! \'1" Rates: l-Yr (or 22 issues), $5.. 5-issue trial, $1 .. 50. Back issues, I, 35¢ each plus fe1" ¢ postage.